Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.